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Gender-neutral washrooms open across campus

Gender-neutral washrooms have opened in academic buildings on campus, including the newly opened Purdy-Crawford Centre. Gender-neutral washrooms also can be found in residence. (Chris Donovan/Argosy)

Facilities spread slowly across campus Chad Morash Mount Allison university is attempting to create a more inclusive environment on campus. The Purdy-Crawford Centre for the Arts added two new gender-neutral washrooms to the count when it officially opened on Oct. 3. The university has also converted a handful of other washrooms across campus.

“Bathrooms can be a very real

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way we divide genders,” said Tasia Alexopoulos, an instructor of both Canandian Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies.

In addition to the Purdy-Crawford Centre, the university has genderneutral washrooms in Hart Hall, the Ralph Pickard Bell Library, Harper Hall, Bennett House, Bigelow House, and Hunton House.

The changes are in line with a 2013 MASU recommendation to refit and rebrand existing single-stall washrooms as gender-neutral.

Alexopoulos said that gendered restrooms can be a place where gender performance is policed, and can threaten a person’s experience of physical and emotional safety.

Key buildings around campus can

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still create these stressful situations.

Some of campus’ public mosttrafficked buildings, like Jenning’s dining hall and the student centre, lack gender-neutral facilities, but the university plans to convert more washrooms in the coming months.

Student Rogan Porter mentioned that being put in such a position in such a public space can mean making a choice between comfort and outing oneself in what can be an extremely uncomfortable and embarrassing situation for some individuals.

Gender-neutral facilities have also been made available at many other Canadian universities including Dalhousie, Queen’s, and McGill University. Administration at each of these universities aimed for faculty,

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staff, and students to have the freedom to have increased privacy and to reduce the incidence of discrimination that can result from gendered facilities.

Members of the transgender community are much more aware of the complications of gendered washrooms than their cis-gendered counterparts, Porter said. In certain situations, having to choose between male and female facilities means weighing the pros, and mostly importantly, the cons of entering each.

“Any masculine, female-bodied person gets looks,” said Porter referring to female bathrooms in particular.

Porter also mentioned that it is not only the transgender community that would benefit from increased availability of gender-neutral facilities

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on campus, but that diverse range of individuals could be better served by these services. This range includes both men and women who present an alternative expression of gender identity, who can be exposed to many of the same challenges as transgender individuals.

As a result of increased concerns raised by certain faculty and students, a much greater proportion of the Mt. A community has been introduced to this situation. Both Alexopoulos and Porter asserted that increased visibility for this issue is certainly important, with the former stating that issues like this can prompt a debate that will challenge widely held assumptions about gender.

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Mount Allison gets a mental health upgrade

Psychologist now available by appointment Willa McCaffreyNoviss

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Mount Allison University and Mount Allison Students’ Union made substantial progress this week toward providing adequate mental health care. Starting on Oct. 22, a psychologist will be available to students every week by appointment.

On Oct. 22, Ron Byrne, vice-president of international and student affairs for Mount Allison, and Heather Webster, MASU president, announced a partnership between their organizations and [psychology firm] Emmrys, Dawe, Parlee & Associates.

“The university saw that some [student’s] mental health issues were unable to be addressed by our counsellors,”

Mt. A students will now have access to a psychologist thorugh the wellness centre once a week. (Cameron McIntyre/Argosy) said Webster.

“Students who had to seek these services off campus are now able to have them delivered on campus which is a huge convenience for everyone involved,” said Gayle Churchill, director of student life for Mount Allison.

The plan was originally to have a psychologist available for one half-day every month.

“I really didn’t think that was enough,” said Webster.

Professional therapy and assessment services will now

MASU reports on summer projects MASU delays for student consultation Willa McCaffreyNoviss Politics Reporter

The Mount Allison Students’ Union’s five executive members revealed the product of their stay in Sackville this past summer after delaying their presentations to consult with students. Presented during council meetings on Oct 20. and Oct 27., the majority of each executive member’s summer mandate covered the planning process of many changes seen in the fall semester. These included polls on campus, residence executive training, brand management, the introduction of mental health information to course syllabi and hiring procedures.

The practice is in its second summer of operation.

“I felt it was odd to present our goals for the year without consulting students,” said Webster commenting on the mandates being presented halfway through the semester.

The consultation opportunities included Student Union Review

discussion groups hosted this past weekend, the annual general meeting on Sept. 11 and the annual councillor retreat.

“The mandates were created when we talked about exec staying for the summer,” said MASU president Heather Webster in an interview with The Argosy on Oct. 25.

“Summer is [the?] one chance we get to fully devote to our work.”

Webster presented the results of her summer’s work on Oct 20. The presentation included an internal review, improving student use of space on campus, and plans for increased involvement from MASU executive in orientation week.

Webster has frequently referenced the success of executive involvement in orientation week.

“Because the executive was so involved in orientation [...] we got first years really excited about the student union and the possibilities awaiting them,” said Webster.

The additional hours of service were reflected with an increase in honorarium from $4,300 two years ago to $8,000 this year for each executive member, excluding the presidential position. An aspect of the work for the summer was the creation of these mandates.

be provided in the Wellness Centre every Wednesday by appointment.

After years in obscurity, mental health awareness and accessible services have been popular causes for the Mount Allison Students’ Union and student groups across the country. Many first year, north-side, and south side councillor candidates referenced it as a priority while campaigning. At the Annual General Meeting on Sept. 11., Andrew Johnston, the union’s vice-president campus life, spoke about the

plans for adding psychologist services. Johnston also hosted a discussion group on mental health where students were able to explore future ideas for mental health awareness campaigns.

Change Your Mind, a student led organization that promotes mental health and aims to decrease the stigma at Mt. A, already hosts many of these awareness campaigns, such as ‘Elephant in the Room.’

“Mental health doesn’t always mean mental illness,” said Piper Riley Thompson, a

Change Your Mind executive, and a MASU arts senator.

“We all have a mental health.”

Thomas Williams, Mt. A’s mental health intern, stressed the importance of the addition of these mental health services.

“Mental healthcare is important because it impacts all other aspects of your life,” said Williams “When you’re a student, you’re here to learn and to study, if your mental health is not in a good place, it makes it hard to perform at the level you would normally be capable of.”

Both the university and MASU had received reports that the currently provided services were insufficient. Before these new psychologist services, access to a psychologist was only available outside of Sackville, requiring students with needs to travel to places like Moncton in order to receive help.

“Most students don’t have cars, [psychological services] were completely inaccessible for more most students,” said Riley Thompson.

New bill increases CSIS’s power Aim is to protect sources Kristie Smith iPolitics

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has tabled bill C-44 – the Protection of Canada from Terrorists Act – and with it the government intends to expand CSIS’s powers outside of Canada, take on new powers to strip citizenship from some Canadians and broaden confidentiality protections for intelligence sources in court.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service may see a further expansion of its powers in the weeks and month to come, but Blaney stressed the need to clarify current powers first to address the threat of terrorism.

“What is a big challenge for CSIS is to be able to share information with out allies and partners whenever an individual who is suspected travels abroad or is coming back,” said Blaney.

“With this bill comes clarity so that CSIS can work with our allies to share information and at the same time be able to rely on our

sources because we can give them confidentiality and privacy, protected within the scope of the law, and there will be legal oversight.

“The first responsibility of the government is to keep Canadians safe. We will not over-react, but it is also time that we stop under-reacting to the great threats against us,” Blaney said during question period before tabling the legislation.

All three main changes included in the bill were telegraphed by the Harper government well before the bill’s release – especially the section on protecting the identities of sources in court.

In C-44, “the identity of any human source and any information from which the identity of a human source could be inferred” will be withheld in court, barring special circumstances.

This expansion will ensure intelligence witnesses and sources enjoy the same degree of anonymity afforded to police sources.

The clause addressing activities outside of Canada will open channels of communication between Canada and allies in the Five Eyes group – the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

“Without regard to any

Bill C-44 tabled by Steven Blaney. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) other law, including that of any foreign state, a judge may, in a warrant issued under subsection (3), authorize activities outside Canada to enable the Service to investigate a threat to the security of Canada,” reads the bill.

Opening those channels of communication puts CSIS in a position to exchange information on Canadian civilians with allies – a new power which promises to be one of the most controversial aspects of the bill.

Michael Geist, a cyber security expert with the University of Ottawa, says the bill is consistent with expectations, which anticipated a grab for

heightened powers, and that further legislation based on last week’s attacks will presumably come later.

“As for C-44, granting CSIS effectively unlimited powers globally – the bill says warrants can be issued without regard to any law – is shocking and potentially open to challenge,” said Geist in an email.

This article appears courtesy of a partnership between iPolitics and the Canadian University Press.

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Should Mt. A top Maclean’s list again?

Students weigh in on undergrad experience

This Week in the World Compiled by Joanna Perkin

State of emergency declared in Egypt

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Every year, Maclean’s Magazine releases its Canadian university rankings at the end of October.

For 17 out of the past 23 years, Mount Allison has ranked no. 1 in the primarily undergraduate category. Other schools in this category, few of which have extensive graduate programs, include St. Francis Xavier and Acadia.

Because of the university’s prominent placement in these rankings, they have been key in Mt. A’s marketing campaigns. In order to put these rankings into perspective, The Argosy asked some Mt. A students whether they agreed with these results, and whether they thought the university deserved the first place ranking.

The results were mixed.

Adèle Gaudet, a firstyear drama student, cites the atmosphere that has been present “since day one” on campus as a marker of Mt. A’s excellence.

“It’s so welcoming; you immediately feel like you’re a part of the family,” said Gaudet.

“The environment Mount Allison fosters gives its students the opportunity to be a big fish in a little pond in many aspects – not only academically, but in a community setting as well,” said Mary Emma MacNeil, a second-year Canadian studies major. “This lets students form stronger relationships with fellow students of every faculty and age, and it puts them in a better position to work closely with their professors,” MacNeil’s parents are both Mt. A alumni, an important factor in choosing where she was going to pursue her post-secondary studies.

“The majority of Mount Allison alumni continue to support the university, and those that I have encountered only have positive reviews of Mount Allison,” said MacNeil.

Antonina Pavilanis and Mike Delong, a first-year arts student and a second-year chemistry student respectively, had similar comments. The small class sizes offered at Mt. A were a key element in their decision-making process; both students agree that Mt. A is worthy of its no. 1 position.

“It makes it a lot easier for students to build a relationship with their professors,” said Pavilanis.

Taylor Crosby, currently in her first year of environmental science, brought up the same positive characteristics. She ultimately agreed that Mt. A deserves its no. 1 status.

“I feel as though Mount Allison, where it’s smaller, makes it easier to [express your interests] whereas in a larger university, you wouldn’t necessarily get a chance to share what you’re interested in with fellow students,” said Crosby.

On the other hand, some students are doubtful about these rankings.

“I feel like although it is a very good university. the Maclean’s rating itself is pretty subjective. If you were

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Egypt declared a state of emergency in the Sinai Peninsula after over 30 soldiers were killed in two separate attacks. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi also declared three days of mourning in the wake of the attacks. On Oct. 27, a suicide blast at an army checkpoint killed 28 soldiers; it was one of two attacks at checkpoints. The suicide blast was the biggest loss of life for Egypt’s army in decades. Egypt has been carrying out an offensive against a group claiming Islamic State backing in northern Sinai and the attacks are suspected to be in response.

Woman hanged despite international outcry

Iran went ahead with the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, despite an international campaign urging a reprieve. She was convicted of killing a man she said was trying to sexually assault her. She was arrested in 2007 for the murder of a former intelligence ministry worker Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi. Many human rights groups and state governments have condemned the execution, and the UK Foreign Minister has called on Iran to abolish the use of the death penalty. A campaign calling for the halt to the execution was launched on Facebook and Twitter last month and appeared to slow the process of the execution. She was sentenced to death in 2009.

Japan loosens legal limits on nightlife

Japan’s government has approved changes to a 66-year old law that bans late-night dancing in clubs. This decision is made in hopes that it will help businesses benefit from an expected influx of tourists in light of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Dancing in public venues is illegal in Japan and is only permitted until midnight under a special licence. This law was created traditionally to stop prostitution linked to dance halls. The changes approved last week now allow a new category of clubs where people can dance all night, but there is a new requirement for better interior lighting to discourage crimes and “bad behaviour,” as the Globe and Mail reports.

Soldier killed while on guard in Ottawa

The no. 1 rating is a big part of Mt. A’s advertising. (Cameron McIntyre/Argosy) to compare [Mount Allison] to another school which wouldn’t have such small class sizes but would have elaborate labs with better equipment, [Mount Allison] would get a better rating,” said Kristopher RussellMurray, a fourth-year environmental science student. Murray stresses that when assessing schools, Maclean’s weighs class sizes heavier than the university’s facilities, which ultimately advantages Mt. A. Delanie Khan-Dobson transferred to Mt. A this year, after spending two years at the University of Saskatchewan. While she remained doubtful of Mount Allison’s no.

1 status, Dobson pointed to Mt. A’s small, inclusive campus as something that differed – and was ultimately positive – from her previous experience in Saskatoon.

Olivia Hecker, a third-year psychology student, points to last year’s faculty strike and lack of a tuition rebate for students as reasons why she thinks Mt. A will not retain the number one ranking.

“I don’t think we’ll be number one this year. We had that strike last semester, which really screwed things up for a lot of people, and a lot of people were upset about paying for nothing. I think that kind of puts a bad reputation on Mt. A,” said Hecker.

“It would be nice to still be a well established number one ranked university, but I think right now we’re not necessarily where we were a couple of years ago. I still believe we are [no. 1], but I think nationally we’ve kind of tarnished that reputation,” said Daniel Clarke, a third-year Commerce student. “I think it was the response to the strike.

Strikes happen, everyone knows it, but I think the response to the strike was not appropriate,” said Clarke.

A marked difference of opinion was evident between first- and upper-year students, particularly with respect to strike-related events.

But, Mt. A students are generally happy with their current situation, though that some may doubt the value of the Maclean’s rankings.

While Mt. A has made extensive use of these results in their promotion campaigns, it remains difficult to assess whether Mt. A’s no. 1 status truly matters in the eyes of current and prospective students.

On Oct. 22, Ottawa was on lockdown for the majority of the day after a gunman shot and killed Cpl Nathan Cirillo while he stood guard next to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. While police confirmed the gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was shot dead, Ottawa remained on high alert through much of the day. Zehaf-Bibeau was killed after a gun battle inside the parliament building by Kevin Vickers, Parliament’s sergeant-at-arms. Members of Parliament, including the Prime Minister, were on lockdown and had barricaded the doors of the House of Commons. Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack followed another attack earlier in the week by Martin Couture-Rouleau. CoutureRouleau killed another Canadian soldier, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, by hitting him with his car. Couture-Rouleau was killed by police in the ensuing car chase.

Same-sex marriage legalized in six states

The U.S. federal government is recognizing gay marriage in six more states. Gay marriage has become legal in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and federal benefits have been extended to same-sex couples. Earlier in October, five states sought to keep their marriage bans in place, but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their appeals. There are now 32 states, plus Washington, D.C., that have federal recognition of gay marriage. Same-sex couples married in these states will qualify for a range of federal benefits, including social security retirement and veterans’ benefits.

Corrections Graham May’s opinion piece in the Oct. 23, 2014 edition of The Argosy (“CAPP has no place at The Walrus Talks”) may have implied that the Discourse and Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals conference was funded by CAPP. That was incorrect. The conference was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Mount Allison University, and the University of Calgary.

Benjamin Foster’s Oct. 23 run-down of the football team’s recent performance and regular season prospects (“Mounties put up 33 points on X-Men in win”) conflated the St. Francis Xavier University X-Men and the Acadia University Axemen throughout, due to an editorial error. References to the played game and Acadia, including the headline, should have referred to the Axemen – which Foster’s original article had right.

The Argosy apologizes for these and any other errors.

Suspected errors and requests for correction can be brought to the attention of Editor-in-Chief Richard Kent.

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Through stained glass A chaplain’s words on the value of positivity Rev. John Perkin Gratitude, it seems, is “in.” Spurred on in part by Oprah Winfrey’s suggestion that we keep gratitude journals, the current trend of the “gratitude challenge” has hit social media recently, and despite my cynicism about some viral trends on Facebook (don’t get me started on the ice bucket challenge), the gratitude challenge does in fact tap in to some good mental health and spiritual practices. However, the true practices and benefits of the life of gratitude are much more complex than the Facebook trend might suggest.

Environmental activist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy noted: “Gratitude for life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art.”

She goes on to say that we so easily take this gift of life for granted, which is why “so many spiritual traditions begin with thanksgiving, to remind us that for all our woes and worries, our existence itself is an unearned benefaction, which we could never

ourselves create.” In many traditions, thanksgiving is offered to the source of all life (God) in many ways and at many times: at the beginning and ending of the day, at meals (in some traditions, at the beginning and end of the meal), at gatherings of people, at harvest time and hunt and at celebrations. Now that Thanksgiving has come and passed, it’s important that we remember the ideals it instills.

Gratitude is not only a supporting pillar of many religious traditions; it’s also good for us. Studies have demonstrated the positive links between acts and attitudes of gratitude and positive life outlook. People who keep weekly gratitude journals are more likely to exercise, attract other people and make progress toward important personal goals. Gratitude is a significant predictor of resilience among university students who face challenges and stress. Those who practice gratitude consistently report lower blood pressure, higher levels of happiness, a greater likelihood of demonstrating generosity and compassion and are less likely to feel lonely or isolated.

An ongoing scientific study at the University of California, Berkeley is exploring the causes, effect and meaning of gratitude; is it all that we think it is? Researchers are looking for answers to many questions around gratitude. Does a moment

of thankfulness statistically predict the likelihood of a pay-it-forward response? Are men or women more likely to spread gratitude? Do men tend to feel grateful for different things than women? Does gratitude practice have any discernible racial, ethnic, or regional variations? Does there tend to be an ebb and flow of gratitude over our lifetimes?

Beyond the psychological and social benefits of gratitude, there are tremendous spiritual benefits.

The ongoing acts of gratitude can open us to the creation around, an appreciation of life itself, the presence of the divine, however we may define it. We are opened, through gratitude as a daily awareness practice, to the world, to others, to ourselves and the possibility of transformation and change. We become more positive and are more likely to celebrate the goodness of life and seek that goodness. As Canadian theologian Mary Jo Leddy notes: “Authentic spirituality, genuine politics, and good economics arise from a spirit of radical gratitude.” The spiritual traditions of world religions celebrate what the world often forgets, the essential and inherent goodness of life, both at the micro or personal, community and even global level, and gratitude for that goodness helps us to focus on maintaining and supporting it.

There are many ways to be grateful beyond maintaining a gratitude

journal or posting in social media.

The task is to make the attitude an act, activity, or action that becomes part of who we are, in the long term. Writing in a journal weekly, some studies suggest, may be more beneficial and more long-lasting than daily writing. Cultivating an attitude of intentionality regularly that allows us to seek out and appreciate things in our daily living, may be of great benefit. We may benefit more from focusing our gratitude on people rather than things. As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted in the nineteenth century, “Celebrate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continually. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include everything in your gratitude.”

And so I was fascinated to see, scrawled on a wall in a shantytown in Kingston, Jamaica, a brief act of gratitude for life, “HAB 3:18.” This is a reference to the Old Testament prophet Habakkuk, chapter 3, verse 18: “yet will I rejoice in the Lord.”

The preceding verse is a lament of drought, lost crops and hunger, and verse 18 proclaims that amidst these hardships, gratitude remains.

In the midst of challenge and want, gratitude can keep us positive.

John Perkin is Chaplain of Mount Allison University.

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Recently, a Fuck Cancer party was hosted in Montreal, where the campaign began in 2010. As photos began popping up on my Facebook newsfeed, I visited the Fuck Cancer website, which breeds a culture of social media, partying and merchandise. Alongside other tabs such as “celebs,” “shopping cart” and “tickets,” the “About Us” section features the history of Fuck Cancer, a campaign started by the Greenbaum family in honor of their mother and wife after her passing from cancer.

With this in mind, the intentions of the campaign are, without a doubt, sincere. The parties themselves, however, seem to have lost the root and intention for which they were started.

The parties are intended as an “avenue for the younger generation to fight back against cancer in a fun and unique way.” It’s doubtful that cancer patients going through treatments or surgery are among the crowds

The Fuck Cancer campaign sells shirts, among other merchandise, to raise money. (Charity organization Fuck Cancer/Facebook) of people drinking and partying at whatever club is hosting the party.

There is a disconnect between adolescents partying and the reason for the event being hosted. There are groups on campus at Mount Allison that focus on inclusivity and positive body image, yet parties are hosted at The Pond, a rather sexualized venue on campus.

It must be asked, then, do the ends justify the means?

If the Fuck Cancer parties do in fact raise money for research or if events at The Pond fund other activities for social groups on campus, should we disregard the fact that they have nothing to do with the campaign message? Perhaps the issue lies in the type of parties that are being thrown.

There is no information about cancer given at the parties. Rather, there is an expectation that the attendees are being given the opportunity to

meet other people who have also been affected by cancer. A party at a club does not foster an environment sincerely shares these experiences.

The photographs taken at the events are posted on social media, featuring teenagers and young adults with their colorful and often cut up Fuck Cancer shirts, middle fingers aimed at the camera.

Last year, I attended the Relay For Life event on campus. We walked together in honour of those who have passed and for those who were still fighting. We lit candles in silence and with that, there was a great sense of unity and community.

Without the blaring music or the influence of alcohol, there was an actual opportunity to listen to the stories of survivors and to share our common experiences. Perhaps, then, it is the more wholesome experience of an event like Relay For Life, in

comparison to the Fuck Cancer parties – popularized by merchandise, Instagram photos and hashtags on Twitter – that demonstrates a certain lack of sincerity in the latter. I’ve never attended one; maybe they really do make people feel better. However, I can’t move past the fact that cancer is a disease and it shouldn’t be something to capitalize on by selling merchandise and hosting parties.

Unfortunately, it is glamorized when the reality of cancer is harsh and painful. The horrifying nature of being ill is cheapened by kids posing with cut up shirts and drinks in their hands. It’s doubtful that the people attending the party took a sincere moment to even contemplate the effect that cancer has had on individuals, their families and society as a whole. The parties don’t seem to be about cancer at all.

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Education in Kenya is improving The West should focus on its own system Gwynneth Coggeshall The Kenyan education system is divided into two sections: primary schools and high schools. The primary schools go from kindergarten to class 8 and the high schools are all boarding schools. Students must pass an exam in class 8 to be able to apply for a high school. Only around 30 per cent of children in Kenya will pass the exam at the end of primary school and continue to high school. In 2003, the Kenyan government decided to make primary education free for all children; however, not all of the small communities are able to guarantee this to all.

Last winter, I went to Kenya for two months to look at the quality of the education system in small communities. I lived with a family in the small town of Ewuaso, which is mostly inhabited by the Maasai tribe, located in the Rift Valley. I volunteered as a teacher in the local primary school and taught mostly class 6, with children ranging from eight to 16. The school had roughly

A group of students at school in Kenya. (Gwynneth Coggeshall/Submitted) between 300 to 400 children in attendance. Although the Maasai are a nomadic tribe, in the past decade a significant number of them have settled down and one of their main reasons for this is education. They still do move their houses around; now, however, they are always within a few hours walk from the schools so that their children can continue to receive an education. The Maasai children that are in school now are the first generation to receive an education. It is often difficult to keep them in school because their parents don’t always understand what it takes to succeed in school. Attendance is sporadic because parents often need

the children to stay at home and care for the animals and their younger siblings. The annual school fee can be difficult for a family with no income.

Many Maasai families pick only a couple of their children to go to school and keep the others at home. The children who do go to school receive most of their education in English; the subjects of religion, social studies, math and science are in Kiswahili.

The primary school children in this village were provided with a free lunch, which was often the only food they ate all day. Children wear school uniforms and discipline is strictly enforced. Overall, the children loved going to school and learning, but

it was difficult because their school was not always consistent. I saw firsthand that the Kenyan government’s promise of free education is not actually the reality. The government does not provide enough funding for the amount of teachers they need and it only gave roughly five textbooks for every fifty students.

After returning home from the trip, I was able to form a real opinion on what I had learned about the Kenyan educational system. In comparison to the Canadian system, it may not seem well-run, but the children are receiving an education and it is slowly improving. I went there as a volunteer teacher because they have a huge

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shortage of teachers, especially in the small villages. Many volunteers who sign up to teach in Kenya, or places with similar needs, don’t always realize that the system itself doesn’t need to be changed. Yes, their education system is run differently from ours, but does this mean we as Canadians are supposed to change theirs or tell them they are doing it wrong? Many people get caught up in thinking that our way of doing something is the right way. This attitude is not just related to education, but it prevails with any aspect of a culture that is different from ours as Canadians. This perspective was the most important thing I learned on the trip, and it was very difficult to come home and have people ask me what I taught them or if I showed them the “right” way to teach.

I think the most important lesson to take from this is that you shouldn’t look at a problem in another country and compare it to something similar here in Canada. Volunteers are the most beneficial when they listen to the people in the communities and find out how they want us to help them reach the goals they’ve set for themselves. The lesson learned is that there is neither a right way nor a wrong way of doing something, but only a different way.

Gwynneth Coggeshall is currently in her fourth year at Mount Allison, studying geography and psychology.

Government should prioritize safety Canadian citizens should focus on unity Willa McCaffrey-Noviss Politics Reporter

When faced with tragedy, it is understandable for Canadian citizens to want the government to put aside the daily divisions of internal politics and focus on national security.

This past week, Canada was reeling in shock when two members of the Canadian Forces were killed in what appear to be ideologically-motivated attacks. Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and another soldier were struck in a hit-and-run in SaintJean-sur-Richelieu, Que. Vincent died from his wounds in hospital.

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was shot while posted as a ceremonial guard at the Canadian National War Memorial.

Wednesday’s Parliament Hill shooting sparked nationwide outrage with statements given by Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau.

Following the attack, spokespeople from the RCMP, CSIS and the Canadian Forces as well as some Canadians on social media and multiple politicians, drew immediate connections between the attacks and

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo stood guard at The National War memorial in Ottawa. (Leafsfan67/Wikimedia) the religious backgrounds of both Michael Zihaf-Bibeau and Martin Couture-Rouleau. Harper labelled Vincent’s murderer “an ISIL-inspired terrorist.” This was followed by an outburst of social media posts and commentary in fear that Harper might use these presumptuous connections as a reason to engage in further conflict, to restrict immigration, or even to infringe on citizens’ personal freedoms.

The immense emphasis placed on

the criticism of the reactions of our politicians in social media takes away from the greater issue at hand. This isn’t a time for a political divide, it is a time for nationwide unity. We should expect the government to focus on protection and prevention of any further potential threats on Canadian soil and concerns with being politically correct should come second. If there is ever a time when safety comes second, even to political correctness, we would be taking a

gamble with maintaining our enjoyed sense of security.

In Canada, we are privileged to live peacefully, exercising our rights and freedoms every day. It should make us angry when there is any sort of threat to those rights and freedoms.

Both soldiers dedicated their lives to upholding these rights and freedoms and that is, in essence, what members of the Canadian Forces do everyday.

An attack on them is an attack on all of us.

It’s almost easy to forget the privileges we experience just by living in Canada. We are not a nation that has experienced consistent violence or terrorism on our own soil. We have become accustomed to feeling relatively safe and secure living our daily lives. People of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and ideologies are able to function with relative cohesion regardless of these individual differences. These privileges are not always given in all countries and should not be taken for granted.

Canada upholds values and an identity that reflect acceptance and freedoms to which Trudeau and Harper eloquently reminded us of in their public statements. In Trudeau’s address, he reminded Canadians that “We are a proud democracy, a welcoming and peaceful nation and a country of open arms and open hearts.” Harper spoke to our resilience as a nation, saying that we will never be intimidated and that we will only increase our attention to national security.

In the days following the upsetting events of these acts of domestic terrorism, we should not be caught up in releasing pent up criticisms of our government. Instead, we should be focusing on protecting the safe and free environment that we live in, regardless of whether we have previously appreciated these aspects of the Canadian experience.

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Maclean’s rankings aren’t absolute Students should be wary of no.1 status Clay Steell

Science Reporter Mount Allison is one of the best places to get an undergraduate education in Canada. Of course, this is based on my view of what it means to be a quality school.

Maclean’s magazine has ranked Mt. A as Canada’s no. 1 undergraduate university for 17 years in a row now.

The ranking is still fundamentally their opinion as their chosen criteria is weighted subjectively. Different schools suit different students, and Mt. A should promote what makes it unique rather than continuously stating that it’s simply the best.

Mt. A treats its rank like it is a fact to the extent that its promotion borders on arrogance. Mt. A’s students are smart, with an average GPA of 85 per cent. I would expect a student body of this calibre to make the distinction between empirical facts and subjective rankings. Trying to depict the Maclean’s ranking as fact is almost an insult to the student body’s intelligence. The average entering grade of high school students in 2013 was 86.3 per cent and I would expect them to be equally

Maclean’s Magazine ranked Mount Allison as the best undergraduate university for 17 years running. (Sarah Yoes/submitted) capable of interpreting a subjective ranking for what it is – an opinion.

Yet, the university continues to try to convince students and visitors alike that Mt. A is the best by plastering the number one all over the school campus, website and social media.

Maclean’s weights their rankings as follows: 20 per cent based on student awards per capita and student to faculty ratio, 20 per cent based on faculty awards and grants per capita, 12 per cent based on institutional funding of student research, 13 per cent based on budget percentage allocated to student services and scholarships, 15 per cent based on library and archival collections and 20

per cent based on reputation.

What makes a great university should not be defined solely by the criteria used by Maclean’s. We have an incredibly active and involved student body and the diversity of our academic programs is largely unmatched by other schools our size.

Both the town of Sackville and Mt. A consistently have events going on.

These cultural activities – among other things – are what make Mt. A a great school and a great community, and yet they are not factored into the Maclean’s ranking.

There are also some areas in which we certainly aren’t no. 1. Mt. A falls behind other schools with

its lack of a sustainability officer, leaving environmental initiatives to students involved in the sustainability committee and to decentralized campus staff. Access to mental health services in Sackville has been poor for a long time, though this has recently begun to change. Accessibility to academic buildings, for example, for differently-abled students is another major issue on campus. Non-student issues, such as intellectual property rights and the lack of job security for short-term faculty, contributed to last year’s faculty strike and of course, the tuition rebate that wasn’t.

This isn’t to say that these areas can’t be improved upon. Our administrators

generally seem to recognize these problems. However, publicizing a no.

1 status is not conducive to an image of self-improvement; rather, it could possibly be misinterpreted as a failure to recognize problems where they exist.

According to the Maclean’s website, reputation is determined by asking “the views of those whose professions put them in a position to form opinions about how well universities are meeting the needs of students and how ready their graduates are ready to embark on successful careers.” In 2013, more than 8,000 reputation surveys were sent to university officials, high school guidance counselors, CEOs and the “heads of wide variety of national and regional organizations.” Only 9.2 per cent of these surveys were returned to Maclean’s, 29 per cent of which were completed by university officials and only 6 per cent were returned by each of the other groups.

Should we really trust less than a thousand reputational surveys, dominated by university officials to say which is the best school in Canada? Does reputation accurately represent what’s going on in a school from year to year?

Mt. A needs to scale back on how it uses its ranking in Maclean’s. It is the areas which make Mt. A a great school that should be promoted, for the sake of accuracy and for the school’s integrity.

Female college sparks identity debate Transgender students remain the focus Chad Morash The concept of women’s colleges was conceived at a time when American universities, as well as those around the world, discriminated against a woman’s right to an education.

This limited social mobility and financial independence. With this in mind, one could typically regard a women’s college as a haven of sorts for fostering an environment for women as intellectuals and scholars by creating a safe space for women to pursue higher education. However, do these colleges provide safe spaces for all women?

Smith College in Massachusetts – among other women’s colleges – has experienced backlash against their policies regarding transgender students. Particularly, Smith has come under fire due to the administration’s decision to deny acceptance to a transgender high school student, Calliope Wong.

Smith rejected Wong’s application because she is not legally or physically a woman, although she identifies as such. Under the college’s definition of

Smith College is a private, women’s liberal arts college in Massachusetts. (Micah MacAllen/Wikimedia) its students, she cannot be admitted to the women’s college. This reasoning is absurd, given that Wong was able to present educational documents declaring her to be female despite one federal financial aid form that identified her as a male. The problem here is the college’s reliance on state and federal systems to define who is female and who is male. In many cases, it can be extremely difficult for transgender individuals to re-apply for passports and driver’s licenses that recognizes their self-identified gender.

One of the complications in a transgender person’s journey to acceptance at a women’s college is the college’s requirement to be considered legally female. What is particularly frustrating is the fact that legal definitions of who is deemed to be male or female can vary widely.

For instance, in Connecticut, the only way to have legally transitioned is to undergo sexual confirmation surgery. Requirements like this may create a lasting barrier for many in transgender communities. Many transgender people may not have any

desire to undergo surgeries which may have long-lasting complications.

Some cannot simply afford to pay outof-pocket for procedures that are not covered by many medical insurance plans and in many cases, cannot be accessed without a psychological diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

In an email to the New York Times, Audrey Smith, the vice president of enrollment at Smith College, tried to deflect blame from the college to federal programs by stating “We don’t define what constitutes a woman – we leave that to other entities or

agencies to affirm.” This his seems like a cowardly path to take, as anyone can see that it is, by far, easier and quicker to change admissions policies than governmental policies.

Smith College also noted that they changed their admissions policy last year. Any document that does not pertain exclusively to admissions purposes will not be considered for admissions purposes. Thus, excluding federally-assigned documents such as financial aid forms and disability forms, among others. From this language, it would seem that Smith are making more allowances for transgender students than before.

How will high schools factor into this equation? Smith College is allowing outside organizations to do their work for them, because they must be aware that many high schools will not change a student’s gender on their documents very easily, if they will change it at all.

Some women’s college admission policies tend to deflect the blame of exclusion onto other’s, such as federal organizations. What this really should tell us is that our views on transgender issues need to be widened dramatically, because exclusions like the one faced by Calliope Wong, among many other transgender men and women, shouldn’t happen.

Chad Morash is a third-year student, particularily interested in feminist research, law and policy.

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Mt. A clinches perfection on MacAulay 2014 Mounties join elite group with win Benjamin Foster

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The graduating members of the Mount Allison Football team have seen a total transformation of the Mounties football program they first started playing for the Mounties. In 2011, the Mounties, outscored by more than 200 points over the season, failed to win a single game and sat at the bottom of the AUS. Fast-forward to Oct. 25, 2014: The CIS seventhranked Mounties finished their firstever undefeated season on the grass at MacAulay Field with an 18-10 victory over St. FX. “It was a great experience, not a lot of teams go 8-0. We can’t take this for granted,” said AUS leading rusher Chris Reid.

This team has a combination of experience and youth, a key factor in their recent successes. There are veterans who endured 2011 like Jon Graves, Josh Blanchard and Donavon Saunders, along with more recent recruits who are contributing such as Reid and safety Devante Sampson.

Sampson put the game away in the final minute with his AUSleading fifth interception. This is the sophomore’s second straight year leading the league in interceptions, totaling nine in his time as a Mountie.

“It feels awesome, honestly. Just running after the catch and hearing the crowd felt incredible. I caught the

Blanchard (above) caught fifty passes for 620 yards in 2014, career-highs in both categories. (Chris Donovan/Argosy) ball and all I could think was getting downfield, and trying to score. I should have went down but in the moment that’s what I wanted,” said Sampson.

The AUS playoffs had been decided a week before the game, making the matchup meaningless besides the Mounties chase for perfection. Both sides played as if it was for the Loney Bowl. Neither side showed any let, playing hard in the sloppy conditions.

The Mounties got good field position after Jordan Redding stripped and recovered a fumble from the hands of X-Men quarterback Tivon Cook. The Mounties did not move the ball much farther up the field, forcing a thirty-eight yard field goal attempt by kicker Ryan Lambert.

The attempt went wide and resulted in a rouge to put the Mounties up 1-0. Lambert would nail three out of his five field goal attempts in the game.

After a defensive hold, Michael Bohan once again gave the Mounties great field position as he returned the ball back thirty-eight yards. Mounties offensive lineman Christian Plante finished off a short drive, punching the ball in from one yard out to give the Mounties an 8-0 lead.

The X-Men were resilient in their efforts, not conceding the victory until very late in the game. X-Men Wide receiver Randy Roseway caught a pass from Cook and ran the ball sixtyseven yards for a touchdown to make it 8-7. This was the first touchdown

let up by the Mounties since Sept. 20, a span of sixteen quarters.

The Mounties stretched their lead to 18-7 on a missed field goal that resulted in a rouge. With just seven minutes remaining in the half, St. FX put together a drive that terrorized every Mountie fan and player as their perfect season was coming down to a close game. The X-Men ended up with just a field goal to make the score 18-10 with half a quarter remaining.

The Mounties defence did what they have been doing all season and shut down the X-Men offence.

Sampson clinched the game with his second interception with just fifteen seconds remaining.

Coming into the game, Reid needed just 141 rushing yards to get

to 1000 on the year. He came up just short, ending the season with 987 yards after an impressive 128-yard day on the ground.

“I came so close! Thirteen yards away I almost did it,” Reid said after the game.

Reid is one of four players in the game who are strong candidates for AUS Most Valuable Player. Blanchard finished the season with 620 receiving yards, the second-highest in the AUS, and led the league with six receiving touchdowns. Leyh finished second in yards, touchdowns and had four interceptions. St. FX quarterback Tivon Cook led the league in passing yards and passing touchdowns and had twelve interceptions.

Cook threw fifty-six passes, completing thirty-one for 472 yards and one touchdown, along with the two interceptions. Leyh threw for 216 yards, fifty-three of those to Rodreke Joseph.

Joseph was one of five Mounties playing in their last regular season game. Departing players Jon Graves, Matt Rose, Quinn Everett, Matt Montgomery and Joseph were all celebrated before the game.

Mt. A will host their first Loney Bowl since 1998 at MacAulay Field on Nov. 8. The team is hopeful that they will have the efforts of receiver Troy Trentham back on the field, as he has been out since the first game of the season with a broken collarbone.

“We find out this Thursday if I can play. I’m hopeful and pretty sure it will happen,” said Trentham.

The Mounties will play the winner of the AUS semi-final between the Acadia Axemen and the X-Men.

Better Know a Mountie: Gillian Tetlow Meet one of Mt. A’s few two-sport athletes Benjamin Foster

Sports Reporter

Gillian Tetlow is one of the few athletically-superior Mounties that can contribute to separate varsity teams at Mt. A. Tetlow has been an outside defender for the Women’s soccer team, and a part of the ACAA Badminton Championship team all three years she has been a Mountie.

“In my first year I won the ACAA badminton Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player of the Mt. A team” said Tetlow. “That [success] continued my second year [as] I won Mt. A MVP again along with ACAA MVP.” The Port Williams, Nova Scotia native has always

Tetlow competes in both AUS Women’s Soccer and ACAA Badminton for the Mounties. (Mount Allison University/Submitted) been very involved in sports throughout her life. “I started playing soccer when I was six years old. But I also did

figure skating, badminton and track and field. In my last two years of high school I played hockey,” said Tetlow.

At Northeast Kings Education Centre, Tetlow was a leader on the soccer team that made provincials all four years she played. She was MVP for grade eleven and twelve seasons.

Tetlow was also successful in badminton.

“From grades seven to twelve, my doubles partner and I won the badminton provincials every year. NKEC also won every year as a team,” said Tetlow.

Despite excelling in both sports, it was soccer that brought Tetlow to Sackville.

“I came to Mt. A because it was such a small school and the atmosphere campus gave off. A couple girls I knew on the soccer team told me how the team was like a family, and that really appealed to me,” said Tetlow. “[Rookie Day] has probably been my best day at Mt. A. There were sixteen rookies on the team that year and we all had to dress up and do teambuilding activities throughout the day. It was just a huge

laugh the whole day,” said Tetlow.

In her first season, Tetlow was part of the first Mounties team in twelve years to make the playoffs. “It was a great learning experience. I didn’t play all the time because fourth years played the same position.

But I definitely became part of the family. Most of my best friends are on the team.

Making the playoffs ended off the year with a bang,” said Tetlow.

She also excelled on the badminton court, helping the Mounties come first in the ACAA Championships, as well as advancing to nationals as an individual.

Tetlow’s second season with the soccer Mounties came with some struggles. A new coach was hired and the season started out slow.

“It took us a little while to get used to the new coach. We ended up in the playoffs again but only because we were hosting. It was bittersweet when Acadia beat us 1-0 on an unfortunate goal to end our

season,” said Tetlow.

Another change in coaching staff with the soccer team this season has also come with its challenges.

“We started out strong this year but we hit a lot of rough patches. We believe next year will be better since we should have the same coach again.”

Other than playing sports and working on her double major in biology and environmental science, Tetlow enjoys being outside and reading novels.

She has proven to be a team leader, one of the main reasons she was awarded the Jack Drover Scholarship for 2013-14.

Tetlow is looking forward to more success with both of her teams and finishing off this soccer season strong.

“Both teams really have made my university experience fantastic and I can’t wait to spend another year with both teams!” she said.

Better Know a Mountie is sponsored by the Connors Groupa and ScotiaMcLeod.

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Soccer women end Acadia’s undefeated season in final match

The Mounties dominated the Axe-Women in their final game. (Richard Kent/Argosy)

Volcko, Rouse and van Diepen score in final game Alex Bates

Sports Editor Amanda Volcko scored early, Jane Rouse added insurance, and Emily van Diepen scored a sensational goal on a free kick to end the Acadia AxeWomen’s bid at a perfect season Friday, Oct. 24. The Mounties beat the AxeWomen 3-0 in adverse conditions to hand Acadia their first loss of 2014.

This was the final game for the AxeWomen, who saw their bid at a perfect

regular season end in the final ninety minutes of the 2014 regular season.

The Axe-Women had only conceded five goals in their first twelve matches, but Acadia’s decision to start back-up goalkeeper Emma Connell and sit leading-scorer Meghan Earle gave the Mounties a chance to collect points in Mt. A’s final game of 2014.

Volcko scored in the seventh minute of the match, and the Mounties never looked back. Her goal occurred after a scramble in front of the net gave her an opportunity to score. Volcko’s goal put the Mounties up by one goal early in the match.

Acadia began to substitute players into the match to try and retain a draw, which would have kept their undefeated season intact. Meghan Earle came into the match in the thirty-third minute of the game, and she stayed in the match until the Axe-

Women found themselves trailing by an insurmountable tally.

Acadia came out of the locker room hot in the second half, and threw a flurry of shots towards Mounties’ goalkeeper Candace Higney. Higney stood tall in net, stopping all four shots she faced in the match to retain the clean sheet.

Minutes later, relief came for Higney, as Jane Rouse found the back of the net after a scramble for the ball inside the Axe-Women’s eighteenyard box. This pushed the Mounties’ lead to two goals.

In the seventy-eighth minute, Emily van Diepen put the dagger in the heart of Acadia’s perfect season, scoring a thrilling goal on a free-kick roughly thirty yards out. Her teammates celebrated van Diepen’s strike, in what would be the graduating-Mounties’ final goal on the pitch.

The Mounties finished the season with three wins, six losses, and four draws, good enough for eighth place in the AUS. Unfortunately, the team missed the playoffs by four points.

The team did have success in 2014, and head coach Gene Ouellette has a lot to look forward to if he wishes to retain his position in 2015. Wins over playoff-bound Dalhousie and Acadia, and near-wins over UNB and Cape Breton is an affirmation of the team being able to compete at a top level.

The team will potentially lose Emily van Diepen, Frances McCurdy, Megan Entwistle and Nicole Jollimore before 2015. Fortunately for the team, they will have the opportunity to retain Amanda Volcko, Charlotte Martin, Myranda Weild and Claire Neufeld, leaving a strong set of players to carry out the teams mission of returning to the AUS playoffs in 2015.

Preventing the outbreak of Ebola Virus presents a low risk to North Americans Madalon Burnett The Ebola virus outbreak has been the most deadly epidemic since the discovery of the virus in 1976. The first cases of this outbreak occurred last March in Guinea, and it has now spread to other countries in Western Africa. Currently Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are experiencing the worst effects of the disease, with a total death toll of almost 5,000. There have been smaller, related outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal, but no new cases have been reported for more than a month; these countries have been declared Ebola-free.

Travellers have brought the disease to Dallas, Texas and Madrid, Spain.

Though authorities in these areas have isolated the victims, they are not considered areas where humans need to be concerned about contracting Ebola.

Yet the virus continues to spread.

Last week, a medical aid worker, who was involved with Doctors without Borders in Guinea, returned to New York and was diagnosed with Ebola.

In addition to the outbreak that

has been devastating West Africa, a subsequent, unrelated outbreak began in Democratic Republic of the Congo at the end of August. So far, sixtyseven cases have been reported with forty-nine fatalities.

It generally takes two to twentyone days for the disease to show symptoms, and people are not contagious until after symptoms are displayed. Symptoms include fever, fatigue, pain in the muscles, head and throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rashes, and potentially internal and external bleeding. Unfortunately, these symptoms are similar to those seen in malaria and other infectious diseases common in West Africa, so more tests need to be performed to diagnose Ebola. These tests are fairly expensive, and with the limited health resources available in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, it is hard to diagnose Ebola where the disease has caused the most deaths.

The virus is transmitted through direct contact with blood, saliva, urine, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, semen or needles contaminated with the virus. It can also be contracted by touching bats or primates that carry the disease. In Africa, bush meat, which is considered a delicacy, can also transmit Ebola. Health care workers have the highest risk for contracting Ebola, especially if protective garments like masks and gloves are not available. It is also common for the disease to spread

during funerals of victims; if families come into contact with the body, they can pick up the virus. Fortunately, once someone has recovered from Ebola, they cannot pass on the disease. It is recommended, however, that someone who has recovered from Ebola abstains from sex and other actions that might cause direct contact of bodily fluid for at least three months.

There is no effective treatment for Ebola, though researchers are working on developing a vaccine.

Drugs that target infected cells are being developed, but there is no commercial cure available yet. Only one in two people who contract the disease are statistically able to survive; however, the survival rate varies from region to region, and between different strains of the disease. Survival rate is improved by the administration of intravenous fluids and by treating specific symptoms. Once again, these procedures are easier for rare cases in North America, but it is challenging where supplies are limited.

Right now, prevention is the best weapon we have against Ebola. If you are considering a trip to one of the affected countries, you should postpone your trip until the epidemic is under control.

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Cross-Country finish at #14

Mt. A had another successful season, collecting two banners. (John Peters/Submitted)

Mounties collect their fifteenth collective ACAA banner in 2014 Richard Kent Editor-in-Chief

Cross country athletes from Mount Allison have done it again. Mt. A’s runners took four of the top-three placements and both team pennants at this year’s ACAA championships.

Competing in Moncton Oct. 25, John Beninger took gold in the Men’s 8 km dash, completing two consecutive seasons undefeated. Mt. A’s Marya Peters and Jonathan Craig took silver in the Women’s 5 km and Men’s dashes, respectively.

Beninger clinched gold with a time of 23:40 in the Men’s event. Craig followed at 24:42, while Dalhousie Agricultural Campus’s Oscar Moyles rounded out the men’s top three at 25:46. Mt. A’s Sam Clements and Dal AC’s Logan Grant finished fourth and fifth in the men’s competition, respectively.

The closest times of the meet were between Mt. A teammates Marya Peters and Claire Henderson-

Hamilton. Silver medallist Peters finished just one second ahead of Henderson-Hamilton, with a time of 18:34. Dal AC’s Hannah Arsenault took the women’s gold with a time of 17:44, while Mt. A’s Madalon Burnett and Kathleen MacMillan rounded out the top five.

Conference champions Beninger and Arsenault won all four of their races this season. HendersonHamilton has consistently placed second or third, and Peters did not place lower than fifth. Craig placed in the top three in all but one race.

In addition to strong individual showings, Mt. A won the men’s and women’s team banners at the championship meet. The women’s team led with 14 points, followed

by Dal AC with 28, 58 for Holland College, and 75 for Université SainteAnne. The men’s team won with 15 points, ahead of Dal AC’s 30, and 61 for Université Sainte-Anne (Holland College did not compete in the men’s events). The Mounties won all eight of the team competitions in 2014.

Both the men’s and women’s teams currently rank fourteenth in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association.

Mt. A’s cross country program has fielded strong competitors for years.

This is the women’s teams eighth ACAA championship, and the men’s team seventh championship banner.

Madalon Burnett is Health Intern for Mount Allison University.

The men set off for the championship in the 8 km event. (John Peters/Submitted)

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Sports in Brief Compiled by Alex Bates and Benjamin Foster

Men end hard-fought season against Acadia

In the final regular season match up for the Mount Allison Mounties men’s soccer team, the Mounties dropped their ninth match of 2014 to the Acadia Axemen 2-0. It was the final match for graduates Greg McGuire, Aaron Gagnon and Jung-Jae Na, who all saw playing time in the match.

Ryan Parris scored a goal for Acadia early in the match, beating McGuire to open up a 1-0 lead over the Mounties. The highlight of the first half for the Mounties side was when McGuire was able to stop an Acadia penalty-kick in the thirty-fifth minute. Cochrane Noseworthy stepped up to take the penalty kick, but kicked the ball right into McGuire’s outstretched gloves, keeping the difference to one as the teams went into the half.

The Mounties offensive attack was lethargic until late in the second half, coming alive after the seventy-fifth minute. The team began to play a much more driven game, possibly for their graduating teammates in their final match, and pushed a handful of shots towards the Acadia goal. However, the attack came to an abrupt halt after Bradley Payne was given a red card. Payne committed a strong tackle close to the Acadia bench that provoked a verbal altercation with nearby members of the Mounties squad and benched Axemen. Backup goalkeeper Nigel Goodwin had to be restrained by a linesman after he continued to show aggression towards Payne and his teammates. Acadia added a goal in extra-time after Khalefah Alenazi scored for the Axemen, pushing the final score to 2-0.

The defeat capped a hard-fought season for the Mounties. The team’s scoring troubles cost the team heavily, as they had failed to score in eight of the teams thirteen games in 2014. With a record of 3-9-1, the team fell a full ten points out of a playoff spot. Break-out performances from Makenzie Hill, Mitsutoshi Matsuda and Kyle Milley will help the team moving forward in 2015.

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NFL on Campus enjoys great success at Mt. A NFL Canada made their last stop on the annual NFL on Campus tour at Mt. A last week. The event was held the same weekend that the Mounties finished a perfect regular season against the St. FX X-Men on the Mounties home turf.

Students got their first taste of NFL on Campus on Wednesday, Oct. 22 when NFL Canada invited students to play NFL Plinko and Madden 15.

The Bud Light Thursday Night Football party was the most popular event.

Students came out to The Pond to watch the Denver Broncos beat the San Diego Chargers play. At the event, NFL Canada gave out Keenan Allen and Peyton Manning jerseys, among other prizes, to the attending students.

On Oct. 24, students got the chance to face off in Madden 15 against two of the best Mounties football players, quarterback Brandon Leyh and cornerback Donovan Saunders.

The program also gave students the chance to volunteer for the NFL. Positions included social media ambassador and a becoming a Bud Light Cheerleader.

“It was a great position and a great program! It was so awesome,” said Bud Light cheerleader and Mt. A student Bryanna Thompson.

At Saturday’s football game, NFL Canada set up their activities behind the end zone. They had a bungee run, a chance to get your picture doing the Lambeau Leap, a quarterback toss game and a chance to compare your vertical and long jump to NFL superstars. At half time, NFL Canada presented Mounties Athletic Director Pierre Arsenault with a $5,000 donation for the football program.

Internal report calls for end of X-Men Football

Leo MacPherson is certain that the X-Men Football program isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, despite a recent Presidential Task Force report stating that the football program is “unsustainable.” Despite drawing thousands for home games, the report calls for the end of the X-Men’s football team.

“At the end of the day, I think the report doesn’t understand the grunt and grind that this football program gladly endures in order to represent St. Francis Xavier University,” the Director of Athletics and Recreation said.

The report, officially titled “Sustaining the Academic Priorities of St. Francis Xavier 2013-18,” declares: “In measures of quality, evidence demonstrates that the team performs below average compared to other varsity teams.” The report was commissioned to analyze how the university spends its money, and make recommendations on current expenses.

The report is also critical of the football team’s poor academic standing in comparison to the school’s other varsity teams. The X-Men had the lowest ratio of Academic All-Canadians of any varsity team at St. FX, despite the team exceeding its budget in Academic Financial Assistance.

“I feel it is unfair and somewhat misleading to compare Academic performance simply on the basis of Academic All-Canadians,” said MacPherson in response to the criticism. The former CIS President makes a fair point. Most student-athletes spend at least twenty hours a week on sport-related activities, and maintaining an average of eighty per cent is not easily done, varsity team or not.

St. FX cut it’s Women’s Volleyball program in 2013, and could be looking to further reduce costs. The X-Men have a budget on par with other AUS teams, and the fact that it has one of the strongest alumni support systems at St. FX, and draws media attention as well as large crowds to campus.

Regardless of the outcome of the decision, it would have drastic implications for the other three AUS Football teams, including the Mount Allison Mounties.

Reducing the league to three teams would put the conference in jeopardy of folding, as it would become very hard to sustain interest in the league. “[I’m] not concerned about the future of football at St. FX,” MacPherson told the Chronicle-Herald. The potential cuts will loom over the upcoming AUS Football playoff matchup between the X-Men and the Acadia Axemen. A win would push the X-Men into the Loney Bowl, a loss would eliminate the team from the playoffs, and could leave a very dark cloud over top of Oland Stadium.

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A taste of postuniversity life comes to Mt. A Tyler Stuart News Reporter

As prospective May graduates turn their thoughts to post-graduation options, some of the more careerminded among them gathered in Tweedie Hall to shake hands and exchange information with potential employers. The event was part of career week, an attempt to encourage students to start thinking about their future.

Across Canada, university students struggle to find work after they graduate. According to Statistics Canada, “the unemployment rate of youths aged 15 to 24 was 14.3 per cent, compared with a rate of 6.0 per cent for workers aged 25 to 54 and workers aged 55 or older” in 2012.

With layoffs more common with youths than adults, the prospects for many Canadian students are grim.

Makyla Walerickton, a fourthyear geography student, was unsure of her plans after next year.

“Eventually I want to be a midwife,” Walerickton said. “That’s a four year program. I’m not going to get in the first three or four times I apply. That’s just the nature of the program.”

Walerickton, like many others, might continue her education with a masters program while waiting for career opportunities.

“It’s terrifying. Being in school is the easy way out, very much so,” Walerickton said.

But last week, the future seemed less menacing for some Mount Allison students as the Ron Joyce

Centre for Business Studies hosted career week, an opportunity for students to explore their options following graduation.

“Whether you’re going right into the workforce or you’re thinking about grad school, or you’re not entirely sure, it’s time to start thinking about it,” said Rebecca Leaman, the career services coordinator at Mt. A. The week had six events, including a resume workshop, a social media how-to, a meet and greet with commerce professors, a career fair, an RCMP presentation and a

business panel.

While many of these events were exclusive to commerce students, some tried to include Mt. A students from other departments.

The main event of the week was the career fair, where 13 companies gathered in Tweedie Hall to speak with and recruit students.

“It’s great practice just to go out and introduce yourself, ask about a company and make small talk with a stranger who could potentially be an employer some day,” Leaman said.

Leaman, who organized the career fair with the help of the

commerce society, said that around 50 per cent of attendees were fourthyear students.

“I think that is something students aren’t really aware of how important that is going to be until they are facing down fourth year and have to try to find a job.”

Most of the companies that attended were actively recruiting students. Among the companies at the fair was Royal Bank of Canada.

“We are a financial organization, so we are looking for people with a commerce background, and the majority of folks coming through

have that,” said Sarah BanksAnderson, a recruitment consultant with RBC. Students flocked around the J.D. Irving table in particular, which had multiple representatives. Kristen Drapeau said she was pleased with the turnout and environment at the career fair.

“I’m seeing a lot of potential in the students that we’ve had conversations with,” Drapeau said. “They’re not just looking for a job, they’re looking for a career, which I really can appreciate as a recruiter.”

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diversity of Irving was compatible with that of Mt. A. Although the career fair catered to graduating students seeking potential jobs, career services will host another career fair in February that is more focused on summer job opportunities.

“Students interested in summer work should really keep their eyes open,” Leaman said.

The final event of the week, a business panel featuring not-forprofit organizations, drew over 140 students to Tweedie Hall. The theme was dramatically different from last

ent rate of youths aged 15 to pared with a rate of 6.0 per 54 and workers aged 55 or er.”

-quarter (28.1 per cent) of between 15 and 24 years of had never worked.”

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year’s business panel, which was entrepreneurship.

A day after the career fair with large corporations like RBC and Irving, the panel examined different options for Mt. A graduates. Debbie McInnis, the executive director of the United Way of Greater Moncton and one of the four panelists, said that the panel raised an imported discussion.

“From my perspective, it was about looking at other alternatives for employment, and how you can give back to your community.”

Daimen Hardie, a Mt. A alumnus

and the program director and cofounder of Community Forests International, said that the students were receptive to the message.

“We got some good comments afterward. I think there are probably some people who had maybe written off the idea of working at a not-for-profit because of some misconceptions about what that involves.”

Like the companies at the career fair, many of the local not-for-profit organizations were interested in attracting students.

“With a lot of these causes that

are so important to society, not-forprofits need to attract the brightest minds,” Hardie said. “They can’t always do that with salaries, so we look for other ways.”

Most of the events, despite their inclusion of all departments, were dominated by commerce students.

The career services office started at the Ron Joyce centre, and catered primarily to commerce students until it moved to the Wallace McCain Students’ Centre.

“I think it will continue to evolve and expand to cover the rest of the university,” said Rosemary Polegato,

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a professor in Mt. A’s commerce department.

Ben Wilson, a Mt. A alumni who graduated last year with a commerce degree, said that although he had multiple job opportunities after university, none of them came from Mt. A’s career services department.

“I think our career services office can do better in terms of offering more opportunities to students who are not based in commerce,” he said.

The commerce department and society supported and endorsed career week. Commerce classes that overlapped with the event times attended them to increase participation. Professors contributed by ensuring tests and large assignments were not due during the week.

Polegato said career week provided an opportunity to compliment the studies of commerce students.

“This is important enough, and the quality is high enough, that it totally makes sense to support this activity,” Polegato said. “It’s what we hope for our students; that you’re here to think about what your life will be like, as well as what your work will be like.”

Leaman said that although the pressure to find a job or pursue a career is high, events like career week can provide a low-risk environment for students to explore their options.

“Being prepared, thinking about life after Mt. A, it’s overwhelming for students, but there is a lot of support on campus,” Leaman said.

“Just remember to seek it out.”

ARTS&CULTURE Sackville celebrates handmade art October 30, 2014

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Left: Amanda McCavour’s exibition in Struts fully utilizes the gallery’s space. Right: Ray Fenwick delivers a musical performance piece. (Chris Donovan/Argosy)

A Handmade Assembly leads gallery crawl Daniel Marcotte

Arts & Culture Editor Sackville’s streets and galleries came alive with the handmade last weekend, as local artists shared and showcased their skills with the public. Cohosted annually by Struts Gallery

& Faucet Media Arts Centre and Mount Allison’s Owens Art Gallery, A Handmade Assembly brings artists and the community together to celebrate the artistic potential of accessible materials and traditional, hands-on processes.

Throughout the weekend, A Handmade Assembly’s participants hosted talks and workshops that helped include the Sackville and Mount Allison communities in various artistic processes. For example, Owens Art Gallery hosted a workshop with Karen Stentaford on Saturday afternoon, in which guests were invited to learn

the difficult procedures of wet-plate and tintype photography. This method of photography, first discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, involves taking a positive image directly onto a sheet of chemical-treated metal. By acquainting gallery visitors with this unique process, the weekend’s events celebrated the interactive potential of arts and crafts.

The weekend’s most diverse event was the Friday night gallery crawl, which invited Sackville residents to hop between multiple locations and exhibitions in the same evening. One notable stop along the gallery crawl

was Struts Gallery, where Amanda McCavour showcased a collection of her experiments with sewing and embroidery. Seeking to explore the creative potential of these media, the artist-in-residence has worked for weeks within the studio to decorate the gallery’s foyer with complex, structured embroideries. McCavour’s creations depicted everything from quotidian objects to geometric patterns, and hung from the gallery’s space in a way that imbued this seemingly mundane medium with new life.

The gallery crawl ended at Thunder & Lightning, which showcased two

exhibitions. The first of these, entitled “Accumulations” by Rachel Thornton, combined drawings, embroideries, and assorted objects stitched onto a cloth background. Thornton’s pieces invoke both the natural and the supernatural, and were inspired by her own personal research into the history of witchcraft.

Although A Handmade Assembly’s events are over, the exhibitions at Owens Art Gallery, Struts Gallery, and Thunder & Lightning remain open to the viewing public.

Brunton welcomes acclaimed countertenor Talented duo considers concept of sanctuary Daniel Marcotte

Arts & Culture Editor The idea of sanctuary and solace is a complex one, and it differs from person to person. This diversity is exactly what Stephen Runge and Daniel Cabena attempted to capture in their recital last week, entitled A Sanctuary in Song.

The talented duo delivered a carefully-curated program of songs for voice and piano accompaniment, as well as a select few solo piano preludes by British composer York Bowen. Although the selections were primarily drawn from late nineteenth and early twentieth century England, together they conveyed a multi-faceted journey through various illustrations of sanctuary and solitude.

I use the word “curated” deliberately, as the exact order of the songs was specifically chosen to convey a thematic progression. Divided into different categories of sanctuary, such as night, home, the sea, and finally, love, the two performers took the audience on a musical tour of human emotion.

The performances began with two pieces that introduced the theme, then moved into three songs depicting “wanderings” in a pastoral setting.

As these categories progressed, they

Cabena and Runge showcase their pretigious musical abilities on the Brunton stage. (Jennifer McKelvay/Argosy) became darker and isolating. Moving into what they called “spectral wanderings,” the first half came to a climax with the performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The New Ghost,” a chilling song based on a poem by Fredegond Shove. Although the narrative was quickly resolved with heartwarming songs such as “The Water Mill” and “Linden Lea,” Runge and Cabena demonstrated that sanctuaries can be either places of calm contemplation or spiritual crisis.

A countertenor, Cabena sings in a much higher range than many male

vocalists, equivalent to the female vocal ranges of contralto or mezzo-soprano.

This gives a soft and comforting tone to Cabena’s voice, which suited many of the evening’s selections. Despite his smooth and flowing tone, one could sense that he was tempering an unrealized vocal power that lurked just below the surface. When the moment most required it, Cabena departed from his usual musical constraint and unleashed the robust character of his voice, such as in his performance of “Drake’s Drum” by Charles Villiers Stanford.

Many of the selections featured in the concert were adaptations of poems or folk songs. The evening favoured performances of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi, who both famously revived British folk songs in the early twentieth century by collecting lyrics and poems and giving them new life.

Cabena also treated the audience to a powerful a cappella performance of “Three Ravens,” a traditional folk ballad from the early seventeenth century. After stepping forward to the edge of the stage, Cabena sang in a

prophetic, solemn tone that sent chills down the audience’s backs. He also took long pauses between each verse, drawing out the song and preserving the casual storytelling aspect of traditional oral performance.

The selections also carried religious and spiritual undertones.

When introducing the evening’s performances, Cabena asked the audience to imagine a grander “narrative” to the songs, and to picture a pilgrim’s journey and exploration of different forms of personal and spiritual sanctuary.

Both of the evening’s performers are distinguished Canadian musicians.

Runge, who is currently the Head of Mount Allison’s Department of Music, has been recognized for both teaching and musical performance.

This year, he received the J.E.A. Crake award for excellence in teaching, and he has been broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two. Cabena has performed extensively in Canada, Europe and the United States, where his recordings have also been featured in radio broadcasts.

His unique countertenor voice has been hailed for its gentle and flowing quality, and he was awarded the Virginia Parker Prize in 2012 from the Canada Council for the Arts. The two will go on to perform A Sanctuary in Song at other locations across Canada, including the University of Guelph and the University of Western Ontario in November.

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This year’s Halifax Pop Explosion delivers Festival grows without losing its essence Jean-Sébastien Comeau

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The city of Halifax buzzed with excitement at the advent of Halifax Pop Explosion, one of the city’s most highly-anticipated festivals. Spread out over five days, this year’s expertlycrafted line-up boasted acts like Toronto electronic duo Zed’s Dead, Detroit rapper Danny Brown, Polaris Music Prize winner Tanya Tagaq and local heroes Rich Aucoin and Ryan Hemsworth.

Late Friday night, BADBADNOTGOOD delivered a high-energy set filled with their signature raucous jazz sound at the Seahorse. BBNG also had the opportunity Thursday night to showcase their most recent work with Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ghostface Killah. The crowd was extremely responsive, particularly to drummer Alex Sowinski.

Just a few doors down from the Seahorse, where BBNG performed, electronic group Tennyson lived up to their hype at The Carleton. The

Electronic duo Tennyson performed an energetic set for excited fans on Friday, Oct. 24. (Jean-Sébastien Comeau/Argosy) Edmonton-based duo, consisting of Luke Tennyson and Tess Pretty, elicited an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the crowd.

Tennyson was a perfect opener for the evening’s secret guest, Ryan Hemsworth, who delivered a deeply intimate and eclectic performance in front of an entranced crowd. Playing a variety of songs from Rae Sremmurd’s party anthem “No Type” to Blink-182,

the hour-long DJ set had the crowd swaying without interruption.

The last night of the festival also happened to be its busiest: shows were booked all over the city Saturday, with festival headliner Danny Brown performing at the Halifax Forum.

Halifax hip-hop duo Weirdo Click also deserve praise for the level of raw energy they brought to the small crowd that had gathered early. Tennyson

Visually stunning biopic captures Steadman’s process

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Arts & Culture Reporter

Brtitish artist and cartoonist Ralph Steadman poses with Johnny Depp, a long-time friend and frequent collaborator. (Charlie Paul/Sony Pictures Classics) For this reason, his work has been published frequently in Rolling Stone.

Visually, the film is stunning. The use of different camera techniques and angles keeps it consistently interesting, and even the smallest clips – like dipping a paintbrush in a cup of water – come together in a way that flows nicely. Furthermore, much of what appeared on screen did not focus on Steadman himself, but on his artwork.

Montages throughout the film show examples of his art in different stages of his career.

In one scene, Steadman shows his entire process, creating a painting from start to finish. He starts by throwing a few paint splatters of varying colours on the canvas; from there, he works with the shape and colour of these paint splatters, building onto them using a few different materials and techniques. To an outsider, the

whole process may seem random and improvised; to an extent, it was, and yet Steadman worked with a look of confidence and certainty in what he was doing. His style and technique, he says, is influenced by Vincent van Gogh’s work.

In only a couple of hours, For No Good Reason gives viewers a close look at the life, career, and mind of Ralph Steadman. In many ways, art is a silent scream for change in our society, and that is the exact purpose that Steadman’s work tries to serve. From satirical comics and caricatures to more colourful and ambiguous pieces, one cannot look at a Steadman piece without looking for a sociopolitical context.

Vogue Cinema and the Sackville Film Society presented the 2012 documentary, directed by Charlie Paul, last Thursday night.

him, kept his performance interesting throughout.

The personal visuals enhanced Hemsworth’s unique brand of geeky, playful beats. Dogs tugged at blankets, and screen caps of popular video games like Minecraft and Zelda were unusual but effective ways for Hemsworth to provide some insight into his world.

Before Danny Brown, the night’s headliner, could take the stage, his tour DJ and long time production partner SKYWLKR first played a fifteen minute set of blistering trap beats to prep the crowd for Brown’s arrival. Even though I experienced the concert from a distance, it was still truly incredible to see Danny Brown perform live. Without any backing vocals – something rare for live rap concerts – everything from his tone to his delivery sounded exactly like it does on record.

The organizers of this year’s HPX can be proud of what they accomplished.

Everything came together; venues were wisely chosen and line-ups were diverse enough to provide something from all corners of music. While the festival curated some of the biggest names in their respective fields of music, the whole experience remained deeply intimate. Truly, this sets Halifax Pop Explosion apart from other music festivals.

A roundup of TV Halloween specials Lesser-known episodes to check out this season

For No Good Reason explores art and politics

“Cartooning meant more to me than to make funny pictures. It meant to change things for the better,” says British artist Ralph Steadman in the documentary about his life, For No Good Reason.

The film begins with Johnny Depp talking about his knowledge of Ralph Steadman, and his desire to visit the artist and to learn more about his career and artistic process. It shows Steadman’s rise to fame in the early 1970s, beginning with his professional relationship with journalist Hunter S. Thompson. The film also stars Ralph Steadman and Johnny Depp as themselves, and features music from Slash, All-American Rejects, Jason Mraz, and others.

The fact that Steadman relates closely to Thompson is evident in his artwork. Thompson practiced a “Gonzo” style of journalism, an approach that focuses on subjective and personal experience, satire, and social critique much more than objective journalism traditionally does.

Meanwhile, Steadman’s artwork became known for being bold, unconventional, and politically driven.

In the film, Steadman explains that he uses his art to fight authority because “authority is the mask of violence.”

once again kept the crowd captivated with their unique mixture of ambient soundscapes and all-out, blissful jams.

In a familiar series of events, Hemsworth followed Tennyson’s incredible performance.

The Haligonian DJ had to adapt his set to better suit a much bigger venue. While the core remained intact, a slight variation in musical selection, along with an added visual display behind

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If you’re still looking to procrastinate after every network has aired “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” for the fifth time, here is a compiled list of alternative Halloween specials that are slightly less famous but just as enjoyable. Sit yourself down with a cup of apple cider, a bowl of candy corn and your favourite miniature chocolate bar to enjoy some of TV’s spookiest gems.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Joss Whedon wasn’t going to write a show about everything supernatural and not make at least one Halloween special. In fact, he made three. Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s 1997 special makes every kids’ dream a reality when Buffy and her Scooby Gang go trick-ortreating only to be turned into their costume of choice. If there’s a perfect time for a Buffy marathon, Halloween is a pretty good contender.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine – Although only in its second season, Brooklyn Nine-Nine has had two stellar Halloween-centric episodes so far.

Both revolve around an ongoing bet between Detective Jake Peralta and the police captain Ray Holt. Both specials are complete with a fully-costumed cast and all the usual shenanigans.

Pretty Little Liars – No true Halloween specials roundup would be complete without everyone’s

favourite gaggle of part-time murdersolving, emotionally distraught teen girls. Pretty Little Liars has had a Halloween special for every season so far, because apparently Rosewood, Pennsylvania has no shortage of highly dangerous high school parties for the crew to attend. Not only do Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna have to face the woes of teen romance, but they’re almost always being followed by one murderer or another, so it’s not a huge change when Halloween comes around. Despite ABC Family’s usual sub-par writing, Pretty Little Liars knows how to deliver a solid Halloween scare.

Parks and Recreation – Halloween doesn’t pass by Pawnee, Indiana on Parks and Recreation. In the Halloween special of the show’s second season, “Greg Pikitis,” Ann hosts a party while Leslie spends her Halloween spying on her arch-nemesis for whom the episode is titled. In true Parks and Rec fashion, the episode is ripe with relatable small-town humour. Notable costumes include Ann’s “Raggedy Ann” and the perpetually-monotone April in a clown suit.

The X-Files – Though it’s not strictly a Halloween special, The X-Files produced one of their most truly terrifying episodes in October 1996 with “Home.” When Mulder and Scully encounter a family of farmers in small town Pennsylvania, they discover that the family is hiding some gruesome secrets. Most notably, this was the first episode of The X-Files to be labeled with a viewer discretion warning. “Home” continued the trend of “monster of the week”-style episodes with some traditional horror film tactics.

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Motyer-Fancy Theatre hosts inaugural play She Stoops to Conquer makes debut Amanda Cormier

Arts & Culture Reporter A group of Mount Allison drama students are currently making history with the inaugural show in the new Motyer-Fancy Theatre.

She Stoops to Conquer, written by Oliver Goldsmith and directed by Glen Nichols, opened Wednesday, Oct. 29.

Nichols said he had a certain idea in mind when he chose it as the inaugural MotyerFancy Theatre play.

“It’s a comedy with a large cast, so lots of people are going to be involved,” said Nichols. “It’s a play with some name recognition, so people will know about it. And it’s a show in a period that offers opportunities to show off nice costumes, and to make it a pretty show as well.”

Nichols added that the play’s story is very appealing.

He described the show as being a comedy “about mistaken identities and mistaken places” as characters deceive one another for the sake of mischief and love.

All misunderstandings are eventually cleared up and lead to a happy ending.

Xavier Gould and Anna Shepard rehearse a scene at the Motyer-Fancy Theatre. (Paul Del Motte/Submitted) “It’s very complex,” said third-year drama student Xavier Gould, who plays Young Charles Marlow in the show. “I think every character has more than one layer,

because they’re constantly presented with different situations that makes us see a different level of the character.”

The actors spoke about the different challenges that they

faced throughout the rehearsal process, including getting used to the unfamiliar theatre space.

“Even just the next show is going to be ten times smoother,” said Louis

Sexual assault and the shame game Ghomeshi demonstrates persistence of rape culture Devon Black

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On Sunday night, a CBC radio host announced that he’d been fired. Then the Internet exploded.

Jian Ghomeshi had been the host of Q – one of the most popular radio shows on CBC – for eight years. On Sunday night, Ghomeshi stated in a post made to Facebook that a “jilted ex girlfriend” had led “a campaign of harassment, vengeance and demonization” against him.

Ghomeshi’s post sounded like someone trying to get ahead of a PR disaster. It was no surprise, then, when the Toronto Star dropped its own bombshell. Three women interviewed by the Star claim that Ghomeshi had physically assaulted them before and during sex; a fourth woman, formerly employed by the CBC, said Ghomeshi groped her in the Q studio and told

Ghomeshi at the CFC Media Lab’s ideaBOOST Launch Pad in May 2014. (Sarjoun Faour/Canadian Film Centre) her he wanted to “hate f—” her.

Since the story broke, I’ve seen the same tired complaints that pop up every time a popular male public figure is accused of sexual assault or harassment: The women should have gone to the police rather than the media; their choice to stay anonymous is a nefarious attempt to avoid accountability; they must be lying, or crazy, or both.

And now we need to step back, because this isn’t just about one CBC radio host getting fired. This is about how we react, as individuals and as a country, when victims of sexual assault try to come forward with their stories.

First off, no matter what you might believe after seeing

Gone Girl, false allegations of sexual assault are no more common than false reports of any other crime. That should be obvious to anyone with common sense, given how often victims of sexual assault are stigmatized, or blamed outright, for the crimes they’ve suffered.

In fact, sexual assault is badly underreported. Fewer than 10 per cent of sexual assault victims report the crimes committed against them to police. They believe the police can’t or won’t do anything to help – and sadly, they may be right. Of the cases that are reported, only half lead to charges being laid; of those charges laid, only one in four lead to convictions. 98 per cent of those convictions

are for the lowest level of sexual assault. Even vicious and violent assaults can result in conditional sentences only a few months long.

Most victims of sexual assault also fear being dismissed or blamed if they go to the police. And some victims have experienced even worse at the hands of police.

In too many cases, victims are abused all over again by the very people who should be offering them protection.

At this distressing point in human history, it’s a nearcertainty that any woman making a public allegation of sexual assault against a popular male celebrity will immediately be subjected to a sustained campaign of threats, harassment, and intimidation.

However the Jian Ghomeshi story evolves, we shouldn’t let it become another cautionary tale of what happens to victims of sexual violence who speak up. Instead, let’s take the time to have a frank conversation about how we can better support victims of sexual violence.

Clearly, it’s a conversation our country badly needs.

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Marquette, who plays Tony Lumpkin. “We’re going to be more familiar with the space, as actors and as the technical crew and the directors.”

“I think I speak for all of us when I say the language was pretty hard,” added Kendrick Haunt, who plays Mistress Dorothy Hardcastle. Because She Stoops to Conquer was first produced in 1773, Haunt said that the script has “a lot of words and references that we don’t use now.” Haunt also explained that the majority of the characters are upper-class, meaning that the actors have to be very proper in their stage presence.

One highlight of She Stoops to Conquer is the costumes, the creation of which required a lot of consideration, said designer Decima Mitchell. “[The early 1770s] is a period that is very elaborate in terms of costume, a very enormous silhouette which requires tons of fabric and lots of work,” said Mitchell.

“Neither the budget nor the staffing resources do we have for such a show.”

To fix this issue, Nichols decided to base the costume design on the Jane Austen period, a couple of decades after the play’s first production, which featured fashions that were much more subtle, but still elaborate and beautiful. Mitchell described the costume design as “an approximation of the period.”

“This design is fairly straightforward in terms of a take on the period, with a focus on the silhouette of the period,” she explained. “It’s a period that many people are familiar with from having seen various movies based on the Jane Austen novels.”

The costume designs are intended to give the audience a very general idea of what Austen-era fashion looked like, with more modern additions like zippers making the costumes easier to make and wear.

In order to get used to them, actors wore certain costume pieces during rehearsals. Anna Shepard, playing Miss Kate Hardcastle, said that the she had to wear a special strap that restricted her movement. The strap is designed to keep an actress’ shoulders back, forcing them to stand up straight and maintain the proper posture that characterized the period.

The actresses also wore long skirts, hats and bonnets and vests during rehearsals.

Marquette said that audiences will enjoy the light comedy that the play has to offer, and Gould added that “you can’t leave here not feeling happy.”

She Stoops to Conquer runs from Wednesday, Oct. 29 to Saturday, Nov. 1. The show starts at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and seniors, and $10 for general admission.

Mixed Tape Halloween Playlist – Allison Grogan Get into the Halloween spirit by blasting this mix.

“Werewolf ” – Cat Power (You Are Free)

“Rhiannon” – Fleetwood Mac (Fleetwood Mac)

Dim the lights, burn a candle.

About a witch, sung by a witch.

“Secret” – The Pierces (Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge) Yes, it’s the theme song for Pretty Little Liars (let’s not pretend we’re too good for this).

“Long Shadows” – Josh Ritter (So Runs the World Away) For facing your fears.

“My Boy Builds Coffins” – Florence + The Machine (Lungs) Don’t let this upbeat song fool you, it’s creepy as hell.

“Demon Host” – Timber Timbre (Timber Timbre) Perfect for all your demon summoning needs.

“Is There a Ghost” – Band of Horses (Cease to Begin) Spoiler alert: there is a ghost.

“Graveyard” – Feist (Metals) Take a stroll through one of Sackville’s finest cemeteries this holiday season.

“The Bed” – St. Vincent (Actor) Thought you were passed believing in monsters under your bed? Think again.

“Human” – Daughter (If You Leave) Humans: the scariest creatures of them all.

“Life Sized Ghosts” – Mt. Wolf (Life Sized Ghosts) Ethereal and spooky, this track is a chilled-out finale to your Halloween celebrations.

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Study challenges brain training businesses A look into what stimulates your neurons or not Eric Leblanc A new study by researchers at Florida State University, set for publication in Computers & Education early next year, claims to have increased improvement in the cognitive skills of test subjects by getting them to play the popular 2011 hit game Portal 2, when compared to subjects using the brain training service Lumosity, which uses a variety of games to sharpen cognitive skills.

The researchers recruited 77 undergraduate students to randomly play one of the two games for a total of eight hours over a period of two weeks, while also being subjected to pre- and post-tests to evaluate changes

in cognition. Portal 2 was chosen for its physics-centric, first-person puzzle theme, whereas Lumosity was used as a “conservative comparison” tool due to its commercial success as a cognitive training program. Their findings concluded that while both games seemed to improve a player’s spatial skills, Portal 2 improved results more efficiently than Lumosity in those areas. They also noted that their tests seemed to indicate that Portal 2 had a significant positive effect on problem solving, whereas Lumosity had a negative effect in that area.

Although Popular Science magazine indicates that this study is too small to draw many conclusions from, they do seem to emphasize that we may still be off-track in our recent focus on “brain training.” As psychologist C. Shawn Green, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, put it, “If entertainment games actually do a better job than games designed for neuroplasticity, what that suggests is that we are clearly missing something important about neuroplasticity.” If

this is the case, it could have sweeping implications for commercial “brain games.” The industry has a market upwards of US $1 billion in revenue annually, according to research firm SharpBrains.

Part of the issue, according to psychologist Ulman Lindenberger of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany is that currently, these games only target improvement in the completion of individual tasks, which does not guarantee a real-world application. “[There is] little evidence that playing brain games improves underlying broad cognitive abilities, or that it enables one to better navigate a complex realm of everyday life,” he told the journal Science. Lindenberger was one of 72 psychologists who signed an open letter arguing that there’s little evidence to support the marketing claims of brain-training companies.

“Our biggest concern here is that older people are making choices […] based on this kind of information

that we feel is not well-grounded,” said Laura Carstensen, another of the letter’s signatories, who works at the Stanford Center on Longevity. “It’s a serious concern for us, and it can feel like people are being exploited.”

However, Carstensen said that the open letter is not meant to discourage research in the field of cognitive plasticity. There is no doubt that the advent of the brain training products came as a result of promising research in this area. It is just a matter of being “still in our infancy; there is much more work that needs to be done to make the strongest prescriptive claims,” states Dr. Adam Gazzaley of the University of California San Francisco.

Where does that leave those of us trying to improve cognitive skills? For older people, a lot of research seems to center around the restoration of lost cognitive skills, such as multitasking. In a 2013 study conducted by the University of California, 46 participants over the age of 60 were instructed to play

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a three-dimensional racing game with a multitasking component. The results showed a major improvement in blocking out distractions after 12 hours of play over a month, and these results remained consistent when the same participants were tested six months later, almost on par with results from an earlier test among a younger test group.

As for improving current cognitive skills, researchers have plenty of work ahead. The Portal 2 study brings an interesting perspective, but perhaps it is not something we should be focusing on too much, according to Roberto Cabeza, a psychologist at Duke University: there are plenty of activities we can do in our everyday lives to stimulate our minds, like playing one’s favorite instrument, or just plain old exercise. “If you’re doing [brain training exercises] like a chore … you also have to compare it to what you could have done during those hours.”

Neanderthal DNA found in ancient human bone Shows when our ancestors got busy with other human species Clay Steell

Science Reporter Just how human are we? A new finding contributes to the growing body of evidence that we are partly descended from Neanderthals, a different species of human that went extinct 28,000 years ago. The evidence comes from DNA in a 45,000-yearold thighbone belonging to a man that lived in ancient Siberia, dubbed the Ust’Ishim Man. It showed that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, about twice as recently than previously hypothesized.

Scientists have known since 2010 that about 2 per cent of the DNA in non-African humans comes from Neanderthal ancestors. But there was no evidence indicating whether this interbreeding occurred before modern humans had developed complex culture, believed by scientist to be a barrier to human-Neanderthal interaction. Archeological evidence shows that modern humans and Neanderthals lived side-by-side as early as 100,000 years ago, and scientists hypothesized that this was when they interbred.

The new evidence from the Ust’Ishim Man, published on Oct. 24 in the journal Nature, shows that he was 2.3 per cent Neanderthal.

By comparing the percentage of Neanderthal DNA to modern humans and other ancient human DNA, the study’s investigators were able to extrapolate when humans and Neanderthals interbred.

The findings are the first to explain

Earlier interaction of our ancesters and Neanderthals than once thought. (H. Neumann/Neanderthal Museum) why different human populations have different amounts of Neanderthal ancestry. Sub-Saharan Africans have no Neanderthal DNA, and East Asians have slightly more than other ethnic groups. This new prediction occurs well after humans migrated out of Africa, meaning that we interbred with Neanderthals over a wide area and over a long time period.

Neanderthals lived in cold, northern climates for about 200,000 years before they interbred with humans.

The study’s authors hypothesize

that Neanderthal genes might have helped ancient African-descended humans develop paler skin and hair, giving their progeny an advantage in places with low sunlight. The study also found that ancestral Neanderthal genes are associated with smoking addiction, Crohn’s Disease, and Type 2 Diabetes, but could not explain why.

The thighbone is the oldest human remains found outside the Middle East or Africa, and is almost twice as old as the previous oldest bone. The bone was discovered in 2008 near Ust’Ishim in southwest Siberia.

Aside from Neanderthal ancestry, the discovery gives insight into ancient human life in Siberia, as well as human dispersion across the world. Ust’Ishim Man is the oldest human evidence that has been found in Siberia, showing that humans were living there earlier than previously believed. Based on isotopes found in his bones, Ust’Ishim Man ate primarily wild plants and freshwater fish. He is related equally to North American Aboriginals and East Asians, but has no direct modern descendants. This bolsters other

genetic evidence that a single group of humans split to populate North America and East Asia as early as 40,000 years ago.

The study was authored mainly by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, with contributions from universities and institutions in Canada, the United States, China, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

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Yo g a / M e d i t a t i o n : T h u r s d a y, O c t o b e r 3 0 Chapel Manning Room: IAM Yo g a / M e d i t a t i o n d r o p - i n c l a s s e s Tu & T h 5:00-5:45 in the downstairs room of the Chapel. Open to everyone, complete beginners or advanced (no charge). This is the fourth year it has been offered to s t u d e n t s , f a c u l t y, s t a f f o r community members and is a practice transmitted by Amma and taught i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y. “ Te a r s a n d P e r s p i r a t i o n ”

by Patr ic k Allaby F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 3 1 7:00-9:00pm S TA R T G a l l e r y, 7 L o r n e St Annual Fine Arts Halloween Par t y F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 3 1 9:00 PM Royal Canadian Leigon $ 7 C o v e r, 1 9 + Fe a t u r i n g mu s i c a l g u e s t s The Naysayers and The Rebel Spell.

Costumes!

Prizes!

Candy!

Spooky!

S c ar y! Fun! Phoenix Colloquium Lecture Series: F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 3 1 3:30pm A. H. Johnson Library: Paul Bogaard, former head of the Mount Allison Philosophy Department, will be giving a lecture.

All are welcome.

October 30, 2014

M TA M u s i c G u e s t Recital: S a t u r d a y, N o v e m b e r 1 8:00 PM Brunton Auditorium S arah Kirsh, soprano, winner of the 2014 Eckhardt-Gramatte National Music Competition, with Madeline Hildebrand, piano.

AT L I S M i n i - C o n f e r e n c e : S u n d a y, N o v e m b e r 2 1 – 3pm Avard Dixon Room 118: The AT L I S MiniConference which will be h e l d o n S u n d a y, N o v e m b e r 2nd, 2014 (1:00-3:00 pm) in Avard Dixon, Room 118. brings together students who have performed research on international issues, with presentations of their findings and socializing opportunities.

Fo o d a n d d r i n k s p ro v i d e d .

8:00 PM Brunton Auditorium: New Music by Mount Allison student composers.

Sackville Shambhala Meditation Group Meeting: Tu e s d a y, N o v e m b e r 4 6:30-8:30 PM 95 Salem Street: N o e x p e r i e n c e n e c e s s a r y, free instruction is always available.All are welcome!

C i n e m a Po l i t i c a F i l m Screening: We d n e s d a y, N o v e m b e r 5 7:30 – 9:30pm: S i r J a m e s D u n n M i n i Wu : “Grace, M i l l y, L u c y. . .

Child Soldiers” Event Co-sponsored by Free the Children

Christmas Craft Show & Dessert Cafe: Sackville Cur ling C lub, 22 Lansdowne Street: 15th Annual Christmas Craft Show and Dessert Café F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 3 1 , 1 0 a m t o 5 p m S a t u r d a y, N o v e m b e r 1, 10am to 4pm Admission $2.00, children under 12 years free.

Handcrafted door prizes.

All are welcome!

The Fine Arts Department Exhibition: Ongoing to November 16: Owens Art Galler y This is an exhibition of recent and new work by faculty and technicians in the Department of Fine Arts, curated by P a n We n d t . T h e a r t i s t s in the exhibition are: Thaddeus Holownia, Karen Stentaford, Jerry Ropson, Leah Garnett, Adriana K u i p e r, C h r i s D o w n , D a n Steeves, Erik Edson, Anne K o v a l , R y a n S u t e r, J o h n M u r c h i e , J o n C l a y t o r, a n d Hérménegilde Chiasson

M TA M u s i c : S t u d e n t Competition Concert: M o n d a y, N o v e m b e r 3

D a v i d H o f f o s : N e w Wo r k Exhibition: O n g o i n g t h r o u g h S u n d a y, December 7

Owens Art Galler y High Wa l l : This exhibition will be built on site at the Owens Art Gallery by David Hoffos.

She Stoops to Conquer: T h u r s d a y, O c t o b e r 3 0 8 – 10:59pm Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts MoyterFanc y T heatre: S h e S t o o p s t o c o n q u e r : o r, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith Glen Nichols, director “A s k me no questions and I’ ll tell you no fibs”: Rowdy and chaotic comedy where mistaken identities & mistaken places lead to courtship and restored fortunes.

F r i d a y, O c t o b e r 3 1 Wo m e n s I c e H o c k e y 7:00 PM Moncton vs. Mount Allison A t Ta n t r a m a r Ve t e r a n s Memorial Civic Centre S a t u r d a y, N o v e m b e r 1 Wo m e n ’ s Vo l l e y b a l l 2:00 PM St. Thomas vs. Mount Allison McCormack Gymnasium S a t u r d a y, N o v e m b e r 1 M e n’s B a s k e t b a l l 3:00 PM Mount Allison at Holland College S u n d a y, N o v e m b e r 2 Swimming

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Looking for animals (rodents and birds) that are recently deceased due to natural causes for an independent study project on Lyme disease in small animals in Sackville and the surrounding area. These would likely be the presents your cat brings you however they do not have to be.

If found, you can either contact Laura Kaplan (llkaplan@mta.ca) with the location or put it in a bag or container, including the location and date, and bring it to the biology office in Flemington 105.

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HUMOUR

October 30, 2014

Last week’s answers

68- Pessimist’s word; 69- That is, in Latin; 70- Breakfast staple; 71- Join lips;

(CUP) — Puzzles provided

by BestCrosswords.com. Used with permission.

Across 1- Riyadh resident; 5- Large village; 9- Warsaw residents; 14- Rain cats and dogs; 15- Other, in Oaxaca; 16- Miss by ___; 17- Blunted blade; 18- Eye sore; 19- ___ Gay;

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20- Backslide; 22- Steinbeck’s birthplace; 24- Caterpillar rival; 26- Pole worker; 27- Some mattresses; 30- Dental device; 35- ___ and the Night Visitors; 36- Frond plant; 37- Superhero fashion must?; 38- Cover; 39- Distinctive; 42- Code-breaking org.; 43- Inter ___;

45- Nerve network; 46- Cravat; 48- Form of glucose; 50- Greek goddess of wisdom; 51- Composer Delibes; 52- Grimy; 54- Lucerne; 58- Ore refinery; 62- Rental agreement; 63- Et ___; 65- Presidential battleground state; 66- Captivated (by); 67- Actress Russo;

Down 1- Impersonator; 2- Thick cord; 3- “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author; 4- Width; 5- Throws; 6- Furry swimmer; 7- Twisted; 8- Denials; 9- Spanish rice dish; 10- Creating all things; 11- Large cat; 12- Singer Fitzgerald; 13- Oceans; 21- Rings; 23- Big name in insurance; 25- Put up;

27- Dish of raw vegetables; 28- Author Zola; 29- Plant root; 31- Pennsylvania port; 32- John ____ Garner; 33- Big name in printers; 34- Gaucho’s rope; 36- Dues; 40- Evidence; 41- Starbucks order; 44- Books of maps; 47- Moneylender; 49- Give in; 50- Military organizations; 53- Of Thee ___; 54- Prefix with meter; 55- Be in front; 56- Simulate; 57- Swiss river; 59- Baht spender; 60- Half of zwei; 61- Spoils; 64- Relay race part.

Possible MASU event names You and your body!

A place for last minute Christmas shopping!

A meeting to show anxious and tired students that the students’ union cares!

Our newest orientation week theme, we challenge frosh to go find themselves!

A fun, sailor-themed night at the Pond!

Find out how to fit in and make friends at Mount Allison!

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Pumpkin art: a commentary The smile on this pumpkin suggests a worldly innocence on the part of the artist, a willingness to go along with established conventions, all the while not realizing that these same conventions are restricted his worldview. We can deduce from this the creator of the pumpkin is a simpleton, who displays neither creativity nor initiative.

See the delicate way in which this pumpkin has been smashed to bits.

Here we see the artist’s angst coming through, which he then projects onto the world around him, as a commentary on the violence in the world and the subsequent victims that are caught in the crossfires.

The ghostly motif that we see in this pumpkin shows the intrusions of otherworldly forces into our midst.

While we know this to be both implausible and illogical, it shows the artist’s willingness to look beyond the common, and search within himself for deeper meaning. It causes reflection in the viewer, leading him to question his own mortality and insignificance.

The nausea apparent in this pumpkin is a commentary on consumerism.

How we as a society gorge ourselves on what is presented to us, rather than perceiving that we are already satisfied. We can see this pumpkin as representing our own bigotry, greed and gluttony, and the subjugation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie.

While adorable at initial glance, this cat-like pumpkin, in fact, represents the beast hidden within us all: our repressed urges and inner workings, which are constantly waging a war against our subconscious in order to escape their confinement.

Furthermore, this representation also points to the dormant tendencies of some humans towards bestiality.

IT’S BATMAN!!!!

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Sackville’s ‘Monster Mash’ A list of the area’s creepiest Halloween haunts Emily Jeffers Sackville is home to some pretty scary creatures, like those two white birds that hang around campus, or that guy who offered to buy you a drink last night at Uncle Larry’s.

But if you like to get your thrills from the paranormal, here’s a quick guide to some spooky places around town where you can hang around the undead, or nail the perfect Halloween selfie.

1. The Quarry The Pickard Quarry first opened in 1883 and was mined for stone blocks which were used in several Mount Allison campus buildings until its closure in 1979. If you decide to walk around, watch out for the family of radioactive beavers who have been living off your party remnants and mining sludge since before YOLO had you convinced that partying next to a dirty pit of water was a good idea.

For best results: If you’re in search of a quarry critter, the best way is to

look for a radioactive tree that’s been gnawed in half or save yourself the trouble and just follow that glowing green trail of chemical runoff into the water. YOLO.

2. The Sackville Rural Cemetery If you find yourself in need of some cool pals to team up with for the skeleton wars, then there’s no better place than the Sackville Rural Cemetery. First opened in 1864, this expansive terrain has plenty of selection for all your apocalyptic needs. Once you’ve found a suitable companion, don’t forget to pay your respects to all those who have gone before you; use the Valencia filter, it’ll really accentuate their cheek bones.

For best results: No. Dogs.

3. Sackville Music Hall It is rumoured that Oscar Wilde did an impromptu talk at the Music Hall during his 1882 lecture tour.

Let’s be honest: if a stylish chap like Wilde was going to pick a place to haunt for all eternity, you can bet it would everyone’s favourite health code violation. The Wood Block was destroyed by fire in 1914 but was re-built the following year; now the concert hall is used to host concerts, gallery shows and theatrical performances. Once inside, be sure to check out the Romanesque Revival architecture, and don’t forget to pick up some asbestos in your treat bag on

the way out.

For best results: No one loves Oscar Wilde like Oscar Wilde loves Oscar Wilde. Bring your poetry pals, some candles and a gas mask. Dorian Gray sounds way cooler in Simlish anyway.

4. Hart Hall Built on top of Allison Hall, a female

residence, this seemingly normal campus building is home to the ghost of Ethel Peake, a music teacher and opera aficionado who died there during the 1950s. It’s no surprise that doors opening on their own, creaking footsteps and mysterious singing are just a few things that can heard by those who hang here after dark.

For best results: Bring some costume jewelry and blast “The Magic Flute,” to summon the Hart Hall ghost. The only screams you may hear, though, are from the history department telling you to knock it off because Mozart was overrated.

Thunder & Lightning Presents The End Times Halloween Party Friday Oct. 31, 9 pm

Karaoke! Misfits Cover Band!

Bowling! Special Guests!

12 $ in advance